Anthony Franciosa
Also Known As: A. Franciosa, Tony Franciosa
Biography: Anthony Franciosa (born Anthony George Papaleo; October 25, 1928 – January 19, 2006) was an American actor. Franciosa began his career on stage and made a breakthrough after portraying a brother of the drug addict in the play A Hatful of Rain, which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He reprised his role in its subsequent film adaptation, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Franciosa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Birthday: October 25, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 19, 2006
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Anthony Quinn: An Original
Overview: Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident. Thus began the story of a man who had a thousand jobs before acting in a Cecil B. DeMille film…
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-10
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A Face in the Crowd
Overview: The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-29
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Zombie Death House
Overview: A renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-01
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Across 110th Street
Overview: In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-19
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Rio Conchos
Overview: Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of murderous Apaches.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-28
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The Drowning Pool
Overview: Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-18
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The Long, Hot Summer
Overview: Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-17
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The Cricket
Overview: An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-04-18
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Death Wish II
Overview: Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-20
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Assault on a Queen
Overview: A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas.
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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Period of Adjustment
Overview: A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-31
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A Hatful of Rain
Overview: A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-17
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Fathom
Overview: While touring abroad in Europe, beautiful American skydiver Fathom Harvill gets wrapped up in international intrigue when Scottish spy Douglas Campbell recruits her to help him on a secret mission. Before long, Fathom realizes that no one around her, including the mysterious Peter Merriweather, can easily be trusted, leading to various adventures that involve bull fighting, beaches and, of course, romance.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-25
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The Story on Page One
Overview: An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Firepower
Overview: A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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Web of the Spider
Overview: Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allan Poe for an interview. While in London, Alan soon finds himself in the company of Lord Blackwood, and Alan accepts a bet to spend a night in his castle
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-26
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Julie Darling
Overview: A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother's death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-01
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Curse of the Black Widow
Overview: Tony Franciosa plays a detective who's on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken cocoons...
Genres: Horror TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-16
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Wild Is the Wind
Overview: A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his lost love and her tendency to drift away to other men cause the two to have a tough time at keeping a marriage together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-11
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The Pleasure Seekers
Overview: A trio of gorgeous American tourists hope to find love while vacationing in Spain. Secretary Maggie Williams falls hard for a married newsman named Paul Barton while fighting off the advances of one of his employees. Singer Fran Hobson sets her sights on a handsome European doctor. And coed Susie Higgins receives an unexpected proposal from smooth-talking womanizer Emilio Lacaya.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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This Could Be the Night
Overview: To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-14
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The Swinger
Overview: An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-13
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The Naked Maja
Overview: A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-20
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Earth II
Overview: In the near future, a space station dubbed Earth II is built for the purpose of scientific research and world peace. However, that peace is shattered when the Chinese send up a nuclear bomb that is orbiting just a few miles away from the station. Can the crew disarm the bomb before it detonates, not only destroying the station but setting off World War III?
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-28
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Go Naked in the World
Overview: A domineering San Francisco businessman is determined to put an end to his son's romance with a high-priced hooker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-10
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A Man Could Get Killed
Overview: An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon after him.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-25
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Careless
Overview: Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. Until he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful but fickle, wayward and coquettish young woman. Unfortunately for him, Emilio falls madly in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-08
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Career
Overview: Playwright James Lee adapted his off-Broadway play for the screen in this high-strung adaptation, directed by Joseph Anthony. In this simplistic, backroom show-business-success saga, Anthony Franciosa plays Sam, a struggling young actor who will forsake his family and take any type of menial job in order to become a Broadway star. Dean Martin is on hand as Maury, an aspiring director also trying to claw his way up the ladder of success. When Maury gets his big break, Sam wants a part in his show, but when Maury, who is unwilling to cast Sam in the production, turns down Sam's request, Sam seduces and marries Maury's girlfriend (Shirley MacLaine). In spite of everything, Maury wants his girl back, and Sam agrees to a divorce on the stipulation that Maury cast him as the star in his next show. Once again, Maury reneges and, before Sam can exact his revenge, Uncle Sam comes to the rescue and he is drafted into the army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-08
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A Man Called Gannon
Overview: A seasoned cowboy takes a young tender-foot under his wing. They become embroiled in a range war, and end up on opposite sides.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-08
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In Enemy Country
Overview: Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo, hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-01
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Ghost Writer
Overview: A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously, but had been murdered by her boyfriend. The ghost asks the writer's help in proving her boyfriend the killer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-07
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Backstreet Dreams
Overview: Caught in the web of inner city violence, extortion and drugs, Dean Costello is a small-time gangster with big-time dreams for himself and his autistic son, Shane. When his marriage to Ludy falls apart the doctors tell Dean that there is no hope for his son, he turns to a wealthy child psychologist, Stephanie "Stevie" Bloom in a final effort to reach Shane. Stevie tries to convince Dean that he must commit himself to Shane and leave behind his life on the streets. But Dean's violent world continues to haunt him, and threatens to destroy the dreams he has for his son, for himself, and for Stevie. In a final battle, he must face overwhelming odds... alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-29
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Overview: A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Sweet Ride
Overview: AA tennis bum (Tony Franciosa) and his Malibu Beach buddies hang out with a TV actress (Jacqueline Bisset) headed for trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-12
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This Is the West That Was
Overview: A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-17
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Fame Is the Name of the Game
Overview: A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names contained in it.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-26
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Double Threat
Overview: A former movie star, Monica Scott, returns to the big screen along with younger boyfriend, Eric Cline, after a long absence. Monica is very jealous of the attention Eric gives to her body double - Lisa. The plot becomes difficult to follow as it changes between real life and the movie they are making. The jealousy inevitably leads to murder attempts and denials
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-11
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The World Is Full of Married Men
Overview: David Cooper works in advertising but spends more time on his love life despite the fact that he is married. When his wife Linda discovers his girlfriends, she decides to get revenge by having an affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-03
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Night of 100 Stars II
Overview: This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-10
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Kiss My Grits
Overview: A man heads for Mexico with a mobster's girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-18
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Fashion Crimes
Overview: On her way home, a fashion model, Gloria, saw a man fought against a woman and killed her in a strangely noisy room in the old villa where a German Countess named Greta Stella used to live. But when the police Commissioner, who is crazy about fishing, and his dull assistant go to the problematic villa in the next morning, the villa is perceived to have been empty for twenty years and there seems to be nothing criminal left. And then Gloria asks help from a playboy-typed psychiatrist, Gianmarco Contini, who is one of the eight joint-owners of the problematic villa...
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-08-05
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Stagecoach
Overview: Story follows a stagecoach ride through Old West Apache territory. On board are a cavalry man's pregnant wife, a prostitute with a broken heart, a Marshal taking in his prisoner Johnny Ringo, a crooked gambler, and the infamous Doc Holliday
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-18
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Side Show
Overview: A teenage boy who runs off to join the circus as a side show puppeteer stumbles onto the dark secrets of the fellow performers.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-05
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Help Me Dream
Overview: In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-03-26
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Rita
Overview: Biography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-09
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Matt Helm
Overview: In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involved with black marketeers and gun runners.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-07
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Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
Overview: Bonus DVD accompanying the special edition CD "The Movie Album". The DVD contains Barbra performing "Wild Is The Wind" & "I'm In The Mood For Love", with excepts from the films they originate from playing in the background. The Movie Album is the thirtieth studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand, released on October 14, 2003, by Columbia Records. Overall her sixtieth release with her record label, it was executively produced by Streisand and her manager, Jay Landers. A concept album, it contains twelve songs from the singer's favorite films ranging in release from 1935 to 1988.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-14
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The Ghost of Peter Sellers
Overview: A documentary about Peter Medak's unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter Sellers and filmed in Cyprus in 1973.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-30
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Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife
Overview: A fashion designer marries a lawyer only to discover that his father is an imfamous mafia don.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-18
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Tenebre
Overview: A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-10-28
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Anthony Quinn - A Lust for Life
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-01
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The Catcher
Overview: An ex-cop and a Harvard graduate team up to become bounty hunters.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-02
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The Deadly Hunt
Overview: A young couple on a forest holiday become unwitting targets for paid killers, and a forest fire helps them escape.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-01
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The Enemy Before Us
Overview: Jeff Dillon decides to revisit the scenes of his impoverished youth, and learns sadly that "you can't go home again".
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-16
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City Hall
Overview: The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-16
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Overview: Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of personal backstage stories and memories. The new documentary is the long-awaited sequel to late filmmaker Rick McKay’s award-winning 2003 film Broadway: The Golden Age, continuing the saga into the '60s and '70s and spotlighting beloved classic Broadway shows including Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, Barefoot in the Park, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Chicago, and 42nd Street. Featuring a galaxy of stars including Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Glenn Close, André De Shields, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, and many more, the film also includes rare archival photos and never-before-seen footage both onstage and off.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-14
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Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
Overview: Schmidt follows the 27 miles of the “street of life” to Pacific Palisades, where the boulevard ends at the ocean. While interviews with celebrities from show and film document the well-known glamorous side of Sunset Boulevard, Schmidt also witnesses the transformation in the wake of a gigantic investment boom
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-04-14
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